US guards abused me, claims Guantanamo Briton

A Manchester man released from Guantanamo Bay told Europe’s top human rights body today he was beaten, shackled, kept in a cramped cage and fed rotten food as part of “systematic abuse” while in American custody.

Jamal al-Harith’s testimony before a Council of Europe panel in Paris came as part of an inquiry by the body into human rights abuses at the US detention facility in Cuba to be made public in a report due out early next year.